The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I think life's turning into an omelet and people will just have to live with that. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient's point of view, that's zero. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
